Bone Hunter (Isabella Hush Series Book 2) by Thea Atkinson

Author:Thea Atkinson [Atkinson, Thea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: heist, Paranormal romance, dark urban fantasy, fantasy series, new adult urban fantasy, Supernatural Fantasy, romance fantasy adventure, supernatural crime fiction, mortal women immortals, urban fantasy series slow burn romance, strong female lead
Publisher: Thea Atkinson
Published: 2018-06-14T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

"I told you to never come back," he said as thought that was an apt explanation that made what I'd seen perfectly plausible and right as rain.

It was so much like Maddox's excuse that I spun on him with all the anger and fear I'd felt over the last hours. Without thinking, I struck him against the collar bone with a tight fist and got nothing but a cracked and aching set of knuckles for my trouble.

"Fuck you," I said through tight lips trying to contain a sob. I felt betrayed. I'd trusted him. Trusted Maddox. Was there anyone in the world at all who hold up to a small standard of honesty anymore?

I was pissed and confused and terrified all at once and all I could think was my bug-out bag must still be there on the table and if it was, I wanted it. I'd yank out the Ruger, the pepper spray, whatever the heck I had in there and I'd give him everything I had because this was not happening. Not today. Not when I'd already seen what I'd seen and lost faith in every other man.

And most definitely because that girl on the bar counter did not deserve to die that way, chewed on and drained of her life's blood.

Any other vampire, I might have just been disgusted or angry or afraid. But Fayed?

Words didn't describe how I felt.

"You fucker," I said because it was the only thing that seemed to convey it all.

I stumbled backwards to where I'd been sitting earlier, cradling my sore hand in the crook of my elbow. The pain was already subsiding, but I wasn't about to give in to the relief. Things felt too wrong to let myself feel okay. I couldn't feel better with that girl dead, with Fayed standing, looking at me like that.

I kicked around with my feet, trying to find the legs of the chair so I could collapse into it. I needed to sit before I fell.

It was in that search that I spied the bag beneath the table.

The legs were wobbly and spidered out from beneath the tabletop in five different directions. Even if I knocked my head on the edge and saw a dozen stars sear through the darkness as I dove for it, I knew exactly where the bag was. My fingers strained for the leather handle. I felt the belly of it brush against my fingertips.

I felt a sure, singular elation in that one moment of decision.

I'd get him first. Then I'd go for that creature outside whatever the heck she was and then I'd take out that damn fae, and then...

And then I just sobbed there underneath the table because if I'd learned anything in the last couple of weeks it was that I couldn't count on anything in the supernatural world. Guns, pepper spray, maces were about as useful as a whispered prayer.

Who knew? Maybe a whispered prayer was the best weapon.

Here I'd thought I had it all under control.

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